When You Gaze Long
Posted: February 28, 2014 Filed under: Candle of Words | Tags: color, poetry, puisi Leave a comment
When you gaze long at a rose
that has wounded a wall, you say to yourself:
I hope for a cure from the sand.
Your heart turns green . . .
When you take a woman to the circus,
a woman whose day is lovely as an icon . . .
and you dismount like a guest to the horse’s prance.
Your heart turns red . . .
When you count the stars, and make a mistake after
thirteen, and you doze like a child
in the blue of the night.
Your heart turns white . . .
When you journey, and do not find the dream
that walks before you like a shadow,
Your heart turns yellow . . .
When You Gaze Long
